WSP Air Quality, Noise, Vibration and Acoustic Services

Air Quality, Noise, Vibration & Acoustic Services | SOQ

Princeton University LAR Research Protection, New Jersey

WSP guided and performed analyses to evaluate potential disruptions to Princeton’s LAR animal research experiments and laboratories due to upcoming construction noise and vibration. Six construction projects are expected over five

years, possibly impacting as many as six buildings housing dozens of sensitive animal areas. Baseline noise and vibration levels were measured near the animal rooms. Future construction noise was predicted using the Cadna-A model, and future vibration levels were predicted using WSP’s proprietary spreadsheet model.

NAVFAC Baseline Underwater Noise Monitoring, Virginia Performed baseline underwater noise

measurements at two locations surrounding a Norfolk naval shipyard in anticipation of future construction to be performed on the docks and piers. RESON TC-4033 hydrophones

were used to monitor ambient sound levels for three-day periods in each quarter of the year, in accordance with NOAA Guideline: Data Collection Methods to Characterize Underwater Background Sound Relevant to Marine Mammals in Coastal Nearshore Waters.

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